i t b egs y ou to come close r ... Yo u Can N o Lon g er Turn B ack... j ust hold y our b reath...co u nt to t en... A n d Ope n Y o u r E y e s . If you enjoyed listening to this episode or the podcast as a whole, feel free to rate the show and share your thoughts in a review. It means a lot. Thank you. Happy 2024. Show some love and support to the Author: Nick Lay Website: https://nick-lays-darker-stories.square.site/ YouTube: https://youtube.com/channel/UCMmkMU7xTAzu4D8Tniv6tzQ Spotify: https...
Jan 03, 2024•21 min•Ep. 35
Martin Riley leads as much a normal life as any other person, he marries, starts a family, divorces and of course like everyone else, he grows old. Now on his death bed, unable to eat, drink or talk, the decision of his end-of-life care is left to a software version of himself. A futuristic form of a living which he signed years before. If you enjoyed listening to this episode or the podcast as a whole, feel free to rate the show and share your thoughts in a review. It means a lot. Thank you. Ha...
Oct 25, 2023•14 min•Ep. 34
Roger Ley is a novel and short story author born in London and educated in the U.K and Saudi Arabia. He worked as an engineer in the oilfields of North Africa and the North Sea, before pursuing a career in higher education. Teaching Mechanical Engineering and building navel engines. Now retired, he pursues his passion of writing stories, writing over 8 books to date that have been published and broadcast internationally. We talk about all of that, his story " Lone Orbit" that was featured on Cry...
Oct 04, 2023•1 hr 48 min•Ep. 33
In this H.P Lovecraft classic, we listen to a story told by a nameless figure. A story about a certain strange man called Arthur Jermyn. As the title suggests, we listen to the life of this Arthur Jermyn and the peculiarities of both himself and his family. We hear about the family members and their strange unique obsessions with Gods and amazing mystical artefacts located far within the jungles of Africa. We are also told of what this ancient artefact did to the Jermyns, and how they all met th...
Sep 12, 2023•31 min•Ep. 32
The conclusion to Jakob Chapman's "Observation". Mik attends his second Observation experiment and is sent to another world, his mind his own, but in a foreign body. His interactions with the planet organisms soon prove hostile, and things only get more horrific when Mik suddenly wakes up outside his girlfriend Kessy's apartment carrying an itch inside him that is hidden from the world, until it is too late. While Mik's life and mind continues to spiral out of control, the doctors in charge of t...
Aug 02, 2023•29 min•Ep. 31
"Observation" tells the story of a man called Mik, who volunteers to take part for the second time, in an incredible experiment which takes a persons consciousness and sends it across the solar system to different worlds. To observe the universe and prove humanity is not alone. But with some unpleasant side effects. Although Mik is drawn by a sense of duty to serve for the betterment of science and the exploration of space, his relationship with his girlfriend Kessy is falling apart as she tries...
Jul 05, 2023•27 min•Ep. 30
Debs is a voiceover artist and comedy writer who although has only been in the VO industry for a little over 3 years, as Debs put it herself, she believes to have found her calling the moment she first stood in front of a microphone. As well as talking about Debs' humble beginnings as a VO, we also talk about a whole load of other subjects. Such as the usual tips and lessons she’s learned along her journey so far, our fascination and admiration towards famous audio drama director Dirk Mags, her ...
Jun 07, 2023•2 hr 57 min•Ep. 29
Today I sit and chat with David Holmes . A voiceover artist who featured as the special guest narrator for Episode 23's "The Terrible Old Man" by H.P Lovecraft . We talk about a lot of things me and David. From his previous career as a theatre lighting designer, to his humble voiceover beginnings as a virtual Glaswegian Toad. From talking about his valuable 3 P's lesson for novice VO's, to his appreciation with vintage pencil sharpeners. There are even some pigeons in there somewhere. It even ge...
May 24, 2023•2 hr 44 min•Ep. 28
In this Conversation Episode, I sit and chat with fellow voiceover artist and my friend, Brad Shaw . Brad has been in the creative industries all his life and has had experience as a theatre actor, a show reel producer, a murder mystery facilitator and of course, a voiceover artist. As well as delving into Brad's colourful career, we hear the story of how he created his VO training platform, Wonderland VO. Which started out as an audiobook project of Alice in Wonderland, in support of the NHS du...
May 10, 2023•1 hr 34 min•Ep. 27
"Hole" is a short story written in the over-the-shoulder perceptive with the story telling you what is happening, as if you, the reader, is the one experiencing what is happening in the story. In this story, a perfectly black, circular hole has appeared on the floor of your Livingroom. Your immense curiosity needs to know. Why is it there? How did it get there? And most importantly, where does it leads to? But what you may find at the end of the tunnel, might make you wish you never did. If you ...
Apr 19, 2023•22 min•Ep. 26
From Beyond tells the story of Crawford Tillinghast. A man who believes he has made the monumental discovery of a world and beings that are invisible to everyone. Everyone except Tillinghast however, who has built a vast machine that will allow him and his concerned friend to see these invisible worlds and their inhabitants once and for all. But this obsession to find the hidden, has become a dangerous one. One that will have ill consequences, when the machine is switched on for the final time. ...
Mar 22, 2023•30 min•Ep. 25
One of the all time H.P Lovecraft favourites. Dagon tells the story about a mans retelling of his experiences as a WW1 naval prisoner of war who escaped alone, only to find the ocean vanished, along with himself marooned on a mysterious island that has a sinister quality to it. And as he explores his new surroundings, he finds a giant stone Monolith where the ancient symbols carved into it tells a story of some kind of ancient man, that something else finds him, that brings him to madness. If yo...
Mar 08, 2023•24 min•Ep. 24
Angelo Ricci, Joe Czanek and Manuel Silva are in the water town of Kingsport, waiting for an opportunity to exercise their profession on an unknowing resident with plenty of coin to miss. And when they hear rumours that the resident, mysterious old man who lives on the old house on the hill, holds a fortune of gold and silver, they think they've hit the jackpot and eagerly make a plan to pay the old man a visit. But, they have no idea that this feeble old man with no name, bears no comparison to...
Mar 01, 2023•13 min•Ep. 23
In this Bonus episode, I sit down and chat with Raz T. Slasher who is a man of many talents including haunted attraction performer, actor, voice actor, producer, trained vocalist, film director and of course, an incredibly skilled and educated writer. So as you can imagine, there is a lot of stuff we talk about in this conversation, which ends up being a filled to the brim, vastly entertaining and intriguing listening experience. If you enjoyed listening to this episode or the podcast as a whole...
Feb 02, 2023•2 hr 7 min•Ep. 22
Mary is an astronaut conducting a mission on the International Space Station with only two months left till she finishes her mission and SpaceX sends new astronauts so she can return to Earth. Until then, Mary drifts alone. Watching the Earth below her, until she sees something happening on Earth and when she tries to contact Houston, she realises the dreadful reality of the situation. If you enjoyed listening to this episode or the podcast as a whole, feel free to rate the show and share your t...
Jan 05, 2023•13 min•Ep. 21
A giant sleeping being, hidden under the earth for thousands of years, wakes up to a modern world and makes her way to the sea to answer an ancient call long forgotten by humans. All she wants is to reach the sea, but the humans don't know that. If you enjoyed listening to this episode or the podcast as a whole, feel free to rate the show and share your thoughts. It means a lot. Thank you. Show some love to the Author: HP. Newquist Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hpnewquistbooks Website: http...
Dec 22, 2022•15 min•Ep. 20
In this Bonus tape, I chat with Writer and Instructor Jakob Chapman . Jakob works as a college instructor at Olympic University in Washington state USA, and has been an indie writer since he was 14 years old, and has published several novels during that time. Jakob and I talk about many things such as his writing style and how he disciplines himself to write even if he reaches a writers block, but one of the most interesting is when we talk about his first and only Sci-fi horror story to date wh...
Dec 07, 2022•1 hr 34 min•Ep. 19
I sit and chat with Indie Writer and Host of the horror YouTube channel, Darker Stories, Nick Lay . Author of Episode 8's "The Garden of Meat". We talk about a huge range of subjects, from Nick's humble beginnings as a writer, his story inspirations and discuss our personal fears. We also talk about our own personal goals as creatives and realise we might a lot more in common than we expected. I'm sure you'll find the conversation intriguing and enlightening. If you enjoyed listening to this epi...
Nov 02, 2022•2 hr 37 min•Ep. 18
Another short but tantalising story from the collection of HP. Lovecraft. Two intellectual friends discuss the theory and psychology of the idea of The Unnameable, in a graveyard of all places. They argue if it is even possible for a thing to be so horrendous, so terrifying, so beyond comprehension, that it is truly, Unnameable. They may have discovered their answer, but they may have wished they hadn't. If you enjoyed listening to this episode or the podcast as a whole, feel free to rate the sh...
Oct 06, 2022•24 min•Ep. 17
In this bonus episode, I sit down and chat with VA, Justine Ghosty who narrated for Episode 15's The Extraordinary Lineage of Ethan McKay. In this conversation episode, we talk about Justine's life as a voiceover artist, where she shares how her journey as VA started out for her, the revelations she has experienced that have played a vital role in finding out herself both in regards to her voice, as well as herself as VA. We also talk about our most inspirational mentors as well as tips, tricks ...
Aug 10, 2022•1 hr 54 min•Ep. 16
Ethan McKay has never felt he fits in with anything or anyone in his life. Not his home, not his school, not his job, not his friends, not his girlfriend, even his own mother. The only two things that he has felt any kind of connection to, is the sea and the stars. But an unexplainable event occurs right on top of Ethan and everything around him plunges into chaos. But not Ethan. For he is beckoned by something that is beyond everyone and everything. Everyone except Ethan. If you enjoyed listeni...
Jul 27, 2022•24 min•Ep. 15
The year is 1918 and the ship USS Cyclops has just left port from Rio de Janeiro with 11,000 tons of magnesium ore onboard to make its final journey back home to Baltimore USA. Its captain, George W. Worley is confident that he and his crew would make it back to the USA in a matter of weeks, but unknown to them, under their ship, are thousands of deadly crab-like sea creatures unlike anything anyone has ever seen. They have been evolving for decades, waiting for the right time to rise from the d...
Jun 01, 2022•20 min•Ep. 14
Rinn's husband Sam is in self induced sleep on a machine that translates the sleepers dreams into their real meanings, but there is someone, or something inside his dreams that keeps showing up, and it appears to want Sam, but why? Along with the help of Rinn's friend Steve, they try to wake Sam up, but this creature doesn't seem to want that to happen. If you enjoyed listening to this episode or the podcast as a whole, feel free to rate the show and share your thoughts. It means a lot. Thank yo...
Dec 31, 2021•19 min•Ep. 13
In this second ever bonus episode, I talk with my dear friend and fellow voiceover artist Mars Lipowski where we explore a lot of things as well as hearing his story of how his love for voice over started out from a love for movies. When he used to act in his film maker father's movies and watch hundreds of English speaking movies where movie dubbing was uncommon from his home country of Poland, which then led him to want to become a voice over artist. We also talk about his narration for episod...
Dec 31, 2021•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 12
This is the first of many special "Conversation" episodes, a series of bonus interview type episodes where I have a conversation with the Authors and Writers responsible for the stories that you hear on Cryo Pod Tapes, whom there would be no Cryo Pod Tapes without. As well as working Voice Over Artists who have leant their voices to some story episodes. In this first Conversation episode, I sit and chat with horror writer, Aaron Lebold who is the talent behind several Cryo Pod Tapes stories incl...
Dec 01, 2021•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 11
Jeffery is young boy who is sad, alone and tormented by the memory of his father leaving him and his mother without a word. He is bullied at school, even disliked by his own mother. The only comfort he has in the world, is a little frog he rescued. A bond forms between them and Jeffery starts to feel whole again. But his mother feels nothing but disgust when she finds out about the frog and just wants him gone. Then when Jeffery finds a strange shop that sells books of the occult, things start t...
Oct 13, 2021•44 min•Ep. 10
Basil Elton has been keeper of the North Point Lighthouse for decades, just as his father before him and his father before him. Basil has heard many a tale of the strange and the unknown on the seven seas, including the one about The White Ship. One day, The White Ship appears to Basil where a mysterious man invites him to sail to distant strange lands not known to man. This is Basil's story of his voyage, aboard The White Ship. If you enjoyed listening to this episode or the podcast as a whole,...
Sep 01, 2021•20 min•Ep. 9
An unnamed individual has just awakened with no memory of who they are and find themselves in a strange garden made of flesh. While trying to find a way out, they have to defend themselves against a hideous deformed monster called a Gorger, whereupon they will ultimately realise who they are, and what they are. If you enjoyed listening to this episode or the podcast as a whole, feel free to rate the show and share your thoughts. It means a lot. Thank you. Show some love to the Author: Nick Lay W...
Aug 11, 2021•15 min•Ep. 8
The year is 2116 and medicine has evolved to the point where brain transplants are now commonplace. And William, a husband and father who is dying with brain cancer, has an appointment to swap his brain with another healthier brain in the efforts to save his life. At first, the operation appears to be a success. But then William starts to have visions, then blackouts. Loosing time while increasingly terrible things happen around him, then he realises that the more time he looses, the more he loo...
Jul 07, 2021•42 min•Ep. 7
Today's story is one from the pioneer of Cosmic Horror fiction, Howard Phillips Lovecraft. A traveller who has lost his way as well as his companions while exploring a cave called the Mammoth Cave, must hide in the darkness from an unknown creature hunting him down. If you enjoyed listening to this episode or the podcast as a whole, feel free to rate the show and share your thoughts. It means a lot. Thank you. Howard Phillips Lovecraft, August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937 was an American writer of ...
Jun 08, 2021•19 min•Ep. 6
